How many students were injured in the Texas Southern University shooting?
At least three people were shot and wounded at a community rally on Texas Southern University’s campus in Houston, a school spokeswoman said. The shootings occurred last night in a parking lot on the west side of the campus, said Eva Pickens, Texas Southern’s director of communications. “We have not been able to identify whether any TSU students were involved,” she said. The Houston Police Department didn’t immediately respond to a voice-mail message seeking comment. Officers believe the incident was a gang-related drive-by shooting during an event celebrating a local rapper, the Houston Chronicle reported. Six people were being treated in hospitals for serious, non-life threatening injuries, according to the report. On May 18 a man was fatally shot in a Harvard University dormitory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, allegedly the result of a botched drug robbery, according to authorities. Earlier that month, a 21-year-old student was shot dead at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connectic
Six people were shot and wounded at a community rally on the Texas Southern University campus in what police believe was a gang-related drive-by shooting, a school spokeswoman said. Witnesses told police that one car drove by an outdoor event on campus Wednesday, where a popular Houston rapper was promoting voter registration, and opened fire, TSU spokeswoman Eva Pickens said. Texas Southern is a historically black university in Houston with an enrollment approaching 10,000 students. Six people were shot, including one male student. They were being treated at hospitals for serious, but non-life threatening injuries, Pickens said. Campus police believe the incident resulted from a rivalry between two gangs, one from Missouri City, a suburb southwest of Houston, and the other from Fresno, a small town outside Missouri City, she said. Among the hosts of the community rally was Houston City Councilman Peter Brown, who is running for mayor in November’s election. Lucinda Gwinn, who manages
